I have a large amount of hair loss on my right front temple in a very short time. I don't really have any good pictures from 2 months ago but i can assure you that I didn't have any noticeable loss whatsoever and my hair was also much shorter. I am hoping for Telogen Effluvium for obvious reasons but also this type of loss seems very sudden and extreme for such a short time. Its becoming noticeable. I have seen and read a lot of stories but I just cant seem to find any like mine.
First off I am 26 years old. My grandfather died last year. He was diagnosed with Esophageal Cancer on New Years Eve and died January 24th. The cancer took him very quickly. Because of how close I was to him and I suppose how hands on I was with him at the end combined with the speed the cancer killed him I have developed extreme health anxiety and just general anxiety all around. Health anxiety however has been very crippling. It shocked me just how quickly the cancer killed him with minimal symptoms leading up to his death. I have battled with a bunch benign and trivial ailments thinking they were something deadly. For example I had a rash or something on my leg my first thought was skin cancer. I had little lines under my finger nails I thought it was bacterial endocarditis, breast cancer, colon cancer, leukemia you name it I have convinced myself I have had it over the last year and a half. I have never in my life been like this. Not even remotely neurotic about anything. This too is a point of stress and anxiety for me. I have had all of these things checked out FYI. I am apparently crazy not stupid. I have none of those things. It seems once I am cleared of one thing mentally I must move on to another. My cousins wedding was on April 2nd I flew down to florida. I convinced myself that the plane was going to crash. Not MIGHT crash that it was GOING to crash. Obviously the plane didn't crash but I can't explain or illustrate how terrified I was to get on that plane. I then came home and the next day I had an ache in my left testicle. Upon feeling my testicle I felt a lump. I now convinced myself I had testicular cancer. It was about a week or two into stressing about the testicular cancer I started noticing thinning on my right temple. So now I have testicular cancer and I am going bald. A wonderful combination of anxiety. I got my testicle checked and my doctor told me I needed an ultra sound ASAP. So I stressed and thought about nothing else for another week before an ultrasound. Thankfully everything is clear with my testicle. So that leaves this diffusion, or male pattern baldness, or bald patch. I don't know. That all included I lost my job last year and health insurance, I have health insurance now but that was a fun time not having health insurance. I still live at home at 26, I am paying back student loans with a crappy job that only pays for student loans, and now that my grandmother lives with us I am watching her slowly kill my mother from stress. My hope is that I have Telogen Effluvium from stress. I don't notice any shedding at all. The occasional hair here and there but not SHEDDING. When I wake up if there are 2 or 3 hairs on my pillow its a lot. I don't see hair in the shower or on my hand at all. No hair on the towel when I dry my hair. Very little to no hair on my comb when i comb my hair. I have been wearing dark shirts to see if i can see any shedding on my collar or shoulders and nothing. So I don't have noticeable shedding except for the fact that there is a distinct thinness or open spot in my hair line. Also this spot has developed I would say from early to mid April to now. I KNOW it wasn't there before that. I don't have thinning in the back or on the other temple or anywhere else on my head. My hair is growing fast and I need a haircut. Which is stressing me out because now I can cover it up. But if i cut it I can't cover it up anymore and there will be this embarrassing space. I honestly understand most men go bald but this just doesn't seem like male pattern baldness to me. It seems too fast. My father started losing his hair when he was 18 and was completely bald when he was 25. Same with all the other bald men in my family. They all lost their hair very young. I know genetics is genetics but I figured I was in the clear. My hair is really thick and soft all around. My father said even before he lost his hair it was never thick and soft. It also grows unbelievably fast. At least if I started going bald I would have a few years. This pace seems fast and i will have no temples by next year. Any way I am just looking for some advice. I am getting a dermatologist appointment ASAP. Sorry for the length of this and the somewhat personal details. I am obviously hoping for Telogen Effluvium because its the most advantageous in the sense that the hair will grow back and if thats true then my anxiety over all of this will most likely slip away allowing it to grow again. However I am also painfully aware when men see bald spots everyone wishes for Telogen Effluvium. Anyway thank you all in advanced and pictures are below.
These pictures are over the course of a week and they seem to get worse everyday and I style may hair the same way everyday.
Before pictures from April 2016 and September of 2015 http://imgur.com/a/hSaap
Now Pictures
http://imgur.com/a/wYv6e
http://imgur.com/a/0H46c
http://imgur.com/a/aO8S4
http://imgur.com/a/sqjDz
http://imgur.com/a/HJElV
First off I am 26 years old. My grandfather died last year. He was diagnosed with Esophageal Cancer on New Years Eve and died January 24th. The cancer took him very quickly. Because of how close I was to him and I suppose how hands on I was with him at the end combined with the speed the cancer killed him I have developed extreme health anxiety and just general anxiety all around. Health anxiety however has been very crippling. It shocked me just how quickly the cancer killed him with minimal symptoms leading up to his death. I have battled with a bunch benign and trivial ailments thinking they were something deadly. For example I had a rash or something on my leg my first thought was skin cancer. I had little lines under my finger nails I thought it was bacterial endocarditis, breast cancer, colon cancer, leukemia you name it I have convinced myself I have had it over the last year and a half. I have never in my life been like this. Not even remotely neurotic about anything. This too is a point of stress and anxiety for me. I have had all of these things checked out FYI. I am apparently crazy not stupid. I have none of those things. It seems once I am cleared of one thing mentally I must move on to another. My cousins wedding was on April 2nd I flew down to florida. I convinced myself that the plane was going to crash. Not MIGHT crash that it was GOING to crash. Obviously the plane didn't crash but I can't explain or illustrate how terrified I was to get on that plane. I then came home and the next day I had an ache in my left testicle. Upon feeling my testicle I felt a lump. I now convinced myself I had testicular cancer. It was about a week or two into stressing about the testicular cancer I started noticing thinning on my right temple. So now I have testicular cancer and I am going bald. A wonderful combination of anxiety. I got my testicle checked and my doctor told me I needed an ultra sound ASAP. So I stressed and thought about nothing else for another week before an ultrasound. Thankfully everything is clear with my testicle. So that leaves this diffusion, or male pattern baldness, or bald patch. I don't know. That all included I lost my job last year and health insurance, I have health insurance now but that was a fun time not having health insurance. I still live at home at 26, I am paying back student loans with a crappy job that only pays for student loans, and now that my grandmother lives with us I am watching her slowly kill my mother from stress. My hope is that I have Telogen Effluvium from stress. I don't notice any shedding at all. The occasional hair here and there but not SHEDDING. When I wake up if there are 2 or 3 hairs on my pillow its a lot. I don't see hair in the shower or on my hand at all. No hair on the towel when I dry my hair. Very little to no hair on my comb when i comb my hair. I have been wearing dark shirts to see if i can see any shedding on my collar or shoulders and nothing. So I don't have noticeable shedding except for the fact that there is a distinct thinness or open spot in my hair line. Also this spot has developed I would say from early to mid April to now. I KNOW it wasn't there before that. I don't have thinning in the back or on the other temple or anywhere else on my head. My hair is growing fast and I need a haircut. Which is stressing me out because now I can cover it up. But if i cut it I can't cover it up anymore and there will be this embarrassing space. I honestly understand most men go bald but this just doesn't seem like male pattern baldness to me. It seems too fast. My father started losing his hair when he was 18 and was completely bald when he was 25. Same with all the other bald men in my family. They all lost their hair very young. I know genetics is genetics but I figured I was in the clear. My hair is really thick and soft all around. My father said even before he lost his hair it was never thick and soft. It also grows unbelievably fast. At least if I started going bald I would have a few years. This pace seems fast and i will have no temples by next year. Any way I am just looking for some advice. I am getting a dermatologist appointment ASAP. Sorry for the length of this and the somewhat personal details. I am obviously hoping for Telogen Effluvium because its the most advantageous in the sense that the hair will grow back and if thats true then my anxiety over all of this will most likely slip away allowing it to grow again. However I am also painfully aware when men see bald spots everyone wishes for Telogen Effluvium. Anyway thank you all in advanced and pictures are below.
These pictures are over the course of a week and they seem to get worse everyday and I style may hair the same way everyday.
Before pictures from April 2016 and September of 2015 http://imgur.com/a/hSaap
Now Pictures
http://imgur.com/a/wYv6e
http://imgur.com/a/0H46c
http://imgur.com/a/aO8S4
http://imgur.com/a/sqjDz
http://imgur.com/a/HJElV
